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Before the endeavor to create my own website, I wasn't very knowledgeable about web programming. I never had any college courses covering web development, though I did take a networking class covering the internet layers at some point. Anyway, point is, I wanted to expand my knowledge, venture into the unknown, and seek out new life and new civilizations1.

I ended up taking an introductory course on web development on Coursera and decided to build my website up from scratch using a Python-based web framework (cuz I was diggin' Python at the time... and still am, to be honest). I had previously hacked together a website using ASP.NET MVC 5, though it wasn't the prettiest thing.

I decided to start from scratch for this new site and apply what I learned in my Coursera course (and a few other books I had read about design and usability).

1 This is a nerdy Star Trek reference. Just wanted to clarify for the uninitiated

Accomplishments

If you're seeing this, at least the site is live... and hopefully functions well and doesn't look terrible

Blog posts released on a regular basis using this site

Mostly programming related

Took initiative to use my free time to further develop my programming skills

Applied knowledge to create a fully-functional website

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